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Parents and teachers want children to embrace challenges. Children that acquire positive strategies to face challenges can build lifelong achievement habits and open vast possibilities for their future.

But challenges can sometimes produce negative emotions and some advanced learners develop behavioral strategies to help them avoid challenges and the accompanying negative feelings. These challenge-avoidance strategies can lead to underachievement and the Impostor Syndrome.

In this session, we will identify some of the negative responses caused by challenges, some causes of the negative emotions, and offer positive strategies for dealing with the frustration that comes with challenges. Participants will learn about the importance of encountering challenge at an early age, as well as use an emotion identification scale and problem solving strategy charts to help children handle feelings that surge through them when encountering challenges.

Participant Outcomes:

Learn about the Impostor Syndrome and growth mindset

Learn to identify the negative strategies children are using to avoid challenges

See how early responses to frustration can lead to lifelong values that can be positive or negative

Identify tools and strategies to help children learn to embrace challenges

Carol Greig is an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic educator. She is in her eighth year as an advanced learner resource teacher in the McFarland School District's Primary School. Prior to that, she completed over thirty years as an elementary classroom teacher. An interest... Read More →